Earth entering debris field from Halley’s Comet – aka The Star of Bethlehem

According to Canada’s Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR), a “hot spot” has appeared within the constellation Aquarius and is an indication that Earth is approaching a debris field from Halley’s Comet relationship all the way in which again to 616 BC.

Some theologians and astronomers recommend that Halley may be the Star of Bethlehem as a result of Halley’s look in 12 BC was only some years distant from the conventionally assigned date of the start of Jesus Christ, which could clarify the biblical story of the Star of Bethlehem.

Our planet will cross a community of debris streams from the comet and it has the potential for an outburst this week. The numbers of meteors that are items of Halley’s Comet hitting Earth’s environment at 66 km/s and disintegrating about 100 km above Earth’s floor are already spectacular so this may be a descent time an actual meteor bathe.

If we check out the historic report of Halley’s Comet then we see that this unusual comet typically is related to biblical occasions, omen good or dangerous.

Going again in historical past the primary sure look of Halley’s Comet within the historic report is an outline from 240 BC, within the Chinese chronicle Records of the Grand Historian or Shiji. The solely surviving report of the 164 BC apparition is discovered on two fragmentary Babylonian tablets.

Then Halley’s look in 12 BC, only some years distant from the conventionally assigned date of the start of Jesus Christ, and in 1066, the comet was seen in England and considered an omen: later that yr Harold II of England died on the Battle of Hastings; it was a foul omen for Harold, however a very good omen for the person who defeated him, William the Conqueror.

In 1301 Halley could have been seen by the artist Giotto di Bondone, who represented the Star of Bethlehem as a hearth-coloured comet within the Nativity part of his Arena Chapel cycle, accomplished in 1305.

1301 picture of artist Giotto di Bondone.

In 1456, the yr of Halley’s subsequent apparition, the Ottoman Empire invaded the Kingdom of Hungary and in 1910 the comet added to the unrest in China on the eve of Xinhai Revolution that may finish the final dynasty in 1911.

Halley’s 1986 apparition was the least favorable on report, the yr of the Chernobyl catastrophe and the San Salvador earthquake which triggered between 1,000 and 1,500 deaths and 10,000 accidents.

According to astronomers Halley has in all probability been in its present orbit for 16,000–200,000 years and its lifetime could possibly be so long as 10 million years.

The subsequent predicted perihelion of Halley’s Comet is 28 July 2061 and in 2134, Halley is anticipated to move inside zero.09 AU (13,000,000 km) of Earth.